Monday, 5 June 2017

Pining for the fjords

I would not wish the occasional spiteful comments about Guinea Pigs on these pages to be misinterpreted as indicative of a general dislike of mammals - on the contrary, I love them, it's just that I prefer them in the wild and not as pets. To prove the point, we have just got back from a holiday in the Scottish fjordlands of Wester Ross where the undoubted highlight was a near daily visitation of Pine Martens to our holiday cottage. We booked the self-catering accommodation in the knowledge that these attractive and normally elusive mustelids were reported to make regular forays to the garden, but we were hardly prepared for the frequency and intimacy of their appearances. A selection of my favourite photographs from the week below, with more to follow no doubt as I pick through hundreds of pictures to identify what we think were at least five different individuals. Pine Marten has been sighted in the New Forest within the last few years - here's hoping they make it to Wareham Forest some day.

About Me

Welcome to Peter Moore's wildlife blog, created largely to compensate for a failing short-term memory by providing a record of my experiences watching and photographing wildlife. I have been fortunate enough to see over 450 species of bird and 61 species of butterfly in Great Britain, photographing most of these (badly) over the course of the last 15 years.